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Article

27 Nov 2006

Author:
EuroNews

Junkmail workers dynamite for TNT [Germany]

Dutch messenger and delivery service TNT [part of TPG] are in hot water with German union ver.di over their advert in North Rhine Westphalia for delivery boys aged...13...ver.di said a line had been crossed, setting up what it called a "distribution network with child labour". TNT have rolled out a poster campaign across the German state, and add the boys will only work with parental permission.